As the crow flies, Glenmoriston lies five miles north-west of Fort Augustus, starting at Invermoriston by Loch Ness. Prior to current ownership, the estate had belonged to the Grant family for nearly six hundred years.

 

In the late 1980s part of the estate was sold off and fragmented, but a portion of it, along with the house were retained by the Grants. The tweed is one of the oldest estate tweeds in existence, and first appears in the Johnston's sales book on 22nd July 1851. It seems likely it may have been adopted by Caroline, Countess of Seafield, as her estate of Glen Urquhart lies immediately to the east.

 

The design was extensively adopted by the tweed trade in the late 19th century. It was found to be too bright for use on the hill and was replaced in the twentieth century by a tweed from Campbells of Beauly.

 

Today there is a new estate tweed, designed to be as close as possible to the 1850's original.